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Pico Iyer is an author, journalist, and travel writer.
Faith Education September 11, 2024

Author Pico Iyer on Finding Peace in Our Divided World

In an exclusive interview, the renowned writer Pico Iyer reflects on his quest to hold onto hope in even the most difficult times. Iyer will open the 2024-25 season of Trinity Talks on September 22.
Melissa Music Press Release
Press Releases September 3, 2024

Trinity Church Announces 2024–2025 Music Season

Trinity Church announces its 2024-2025 season, featuring programming encompassing social, political, personal, and spiritual themes, and music from the medieval era to the modern day.
family service
Featured September 3, 2024

A Letter from Father Phil

How our downtown community is making a difference for children and families in District 1 schools.
The Rev. Kristin Kaulbach Miles
Parish Life July 25, 2024

The Rev. Kristin Miles Reflects on 50 Years of Women’s Ordination

Fifty years ago, on July 29, 1974, eleven women were ordained as Episcopal priests at Philadelphia’s Church of the Advocate. The “Philadelphia Eleven” paved the way for The Episcopal Church’s approval of women’s ordination two years later. The Rev. Kristin Kaulbach Miles, Trinity Church’s director of Parish Life, reflects on what this anniversary means to her.

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Close up photo of swirled plaster work in Trinity Church
Faith EducationFaith Formation and EducationMarch 2, 2023

Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: What Have We Got to Lose?

But what if a triumph for one is tragedy for another? Are there winners and losers in God’s kin-dom? What does unassailable faith look like, anyway? If it’s not transactional, how can we know? It seems that the early Christians in Rome were debating these questions with Paul, too. These might be some questions we meet on our journey through the wilderness.
Arts and crafts at the Trinity Mardi Gras celebration
Faith EducationFaith Formation & EducationFebruary 25, 2023

3 Ways Into Sunday’s Stories for Children: Spiritual Practice Together

Though this might seem counterintuitive to try with children, there is ample evidence and experience that spending some intentional time, daily or weekly, as a family on inward and outward-facing spiritual practice can be as meaningful and formative as a family vacation, or any time together in which you share a focus or activity.  
A brach of blooming pink flowers in front of the Astor cross in Trinity Churchyard
Faith EducationFaith Formation and EducationFebruary 23, 2023

Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: Radically Free

This is a life where prohibition is necessary, and also a life of overabundance. As Jesus says in the Gospel of John, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
2023 Lenten Meditations
FeaturedFebruary 22, 2023

Lenten Meditations 2023

Every year, Trinity parishioners, clergy, and staff offer a book of meditations based on the lectionary readings to accompany us through the season of Lent. Some are written reflections, others are paintings or photographs. All are insightful, meditative, and a gift from the parish to the reader.